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At first, WD 1856 b captured astronomers' interest when they noticed a possible transiting object with NASA's TESS Space Telescope surveyTESS finds a planet by looking at a star, and measures how bright the star is continuously for weeks

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by IAU's Minor Planet CentrePadma Vibhushan recipient Pandit Jasraj has become the first Indian musician to join the galaxy of immortal composers

Nasa says a large asteroid will pass safely by the Earth on 1 September at a distance of seven million kilometres or 18 Earth-Moon distances

Nasa super pressure balloon, designed to detect cosmic particles from beyond the galaxy as they penetrate Earth's atmosphere, may circle the planet two or three times

Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array telescope in Chile, astronomers have examined the widely scattered debris from this explosive event

A new TV series by National Geographic depicts a realistic version of how humans could colonize Mars within the next two decades

Located about 340 light years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus, HD 131399Ab is about 16 million years old

Mercury will be seen as a small black dot travelling from one end of the solar disc to the other

Bloomberg's Emily Chang reports that US scientists have found 'solid evidence' of another planet

The likely ninth planet ,nicknamed 'Planet Nine,' is 10 times bigger than the earth and is orbiting far beyond Neptune